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Di Battista Pittoni pittore vicentino Imprese di diuersi prencipi, duchi, signori, e d’altri personaggi et huomini letterati et illustri : con alcune stanze del Dolce che dichiarano i motti di esse imprese.

by: Pittoni, Battista, b. 1520?; Dolce, Lodovico, 1508-1568

Publication date: 1562

Topics: Devices (Heraldry) --Early works to 1800., Emblems --Early works to 1800., Emblem books, Italian --Italy --16th century.

Publisher: [Venice : s.n.]

Collection: emblem; americana

Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: Italian

The etched emblems appear within elaborate borders of strapwork, architectural elements, figures, masks, swags, fruit, etc. They include Latin mottos. Dolce’s explanatory verses appear on the leaf following each emblem. These are printed letterpress, within one of two woodcut borders, and are numbered 1-52 at the upper right (mistakes, omissions). Plates [38] and [45] each contain two emblems.

Place of publication taken from Venetian privilege on t.p. Date from that of dedication to Alfonso II, Duke of Ferrara (6 ottobre 1562).

Landwehr, J. Romanic emblem books, 604

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois, P22.